Science news articles about 'department of zoology'

  • New species discovered in Brazil

    ... of the protected area and its immediate surroundings,” said Luís Fabio Silveira, of the Department of Zoology of the University of São Paulo. “From the survey we can obtain data concerning the ...
  • World first discovery -- genes from extinct Tasmanian tiger function in a mouse

    ... Marilyn Renfree, Federation Fellow and Laureate Professor in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Zoology, the senior author on the paper. “For those species that have already become extinct ...
  • Unheard of life history for a vertebrate

    ... in the population die within 4 to 5 months. Kristopher Karsten, a graduate student from the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University, discovered the unusual life cycle almost by accident. ...
  • Discovery -- marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago

    Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of ...
  • Spotted hyenas can increase survival rates by hunting alone

    ... in the journal Animal Behaviour, Smith, a student in MSU's Department of Zoology, shows that while spotted hyenas know the value of living together in large, cooperative societies, they ...
  • New study shows compounds from soy affect brain and reproductive development

    ... "circuitry" of the brain is similar in both rats and humans. Patisaul is an assistant professor in NC State's Department of Zoology. Her co-author is Heather Bateman, a doctoral ...
  • Humans' response to risk can be unnecessarily dangerous, finds Tel Aviv University study

    ... , according to new research from Tel Aviv University. Arnon Lotem, a behavioral ecologist from the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, reports in the prestigious journal Nature that people ...
  • Racing cane toads reveals they get cold feet on Southern Australia invasion

    ... or Sydney, even with climate change. According to research by Dr Michael Kearney, from the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne, and collaborators from Australia and the USA, the cane ...
  • Myth about 'dirty old men' supported by science

    ... and for the characteristics they were looking for in a partner," says Jörgen Johnsson at the Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg, one of the researchers behind the study. "This might ...
  • Cousin marriage laws outdated

    ... expert. In an opinion article published in the US open-access journal PLoS Biology, University of Otago Department of Zoology Professor Hamish Spencer and Professor Diane Paul, a ...
  • Rats say: Manhattan rules!

    ... , for example, to the Arc de Triumph in Paris," says Prof. David Eilam from TAU's Department of Zoology. "Our research takes the art used by humans to create their towns and cities and turns it back ...
  • Biofeedback from the zoo

    ... from the animal kingdom, observed in the wild or in captivity," says Prof. David Eilam from the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University. Studying bears, gazelles, and rats, among other animals ...
  • Changing sexes on the sea floor

    ... environmentally stressed fish do it. But Prof. Yossi Loya from Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology is the first in the world to discover that Japanese sea corals engage in "sex switching" too ...
  • New light shed on marine luminescence

    ... behind these processes remain shrouded in mystery. Jenny Krönström, a researcher at the Department of Zoology of the University of Gothenburg has put another piece of the jigsaw puzzle in place by ...
  • An underwater drugstore?

    ... . And their secret weapon is the common marine sponge. Prof. Micha Ilan from the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, who is heading the project, has already identified several alternative ...

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